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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 15:27:49 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: building gcc
Message-ID:  <20010527152749.A58757@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105271720.KAA02516@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from dleimbac@earthlink.net on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:23:29PM -0500
References:  <200105271720.KAA02516@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>

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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:23:29PM -0500, dave wrote:
>=20
>=20
> I also don't understand how the gcc tarred source doesn't have the glibc
> library..
>=20
> I just downloaded and built it on some Alpha linux machines at work and it
> was compiling stuff from stdio.  Stdio is a part of glibc.  Obviously gcc
> comes with glibc.

No, it doesn't.  You must have misinterpreted what it was doing.

> Has anyone actually upgraded gcc on a FreeBSD or am I just getting
> speculative uninformed answers?

GCC 2.95.3 also exists in the ports collection.  It's much better to
install that than to compile it yourself; you may have problems
compiling old FreeBSD source with the newer compiler, so you don't
want to shoot yourself in the foot.

Kris

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